BC Veterans Remembrance

The Mass takes place at 9:30 a.m. in St. Mary’s Chapel, with the ceremony beginning at 11 a.m.

The remembrance ceremony, which includes a reading of the names of the 211 Boston College alumni veterans killed during the nation’s wars dating back to World War I, takes place just steps from the Boston College Veterans Memorial, where those names are inscribed.

Powers spent six years in active service with the United States Navy and another 18 years in reserve service as a defense attorney, prosecutor, legal advisor, and lecturer. His assignments included Naval Legal Service Office Northwest, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the Department of Defense Convening Authority in Washington, D.C., and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

With more than 25 years of combined cybersecurity, data privacy, business, law enforcement, military, national security, higher education, and teaching experience, Powers has additionally worked as an analyst and an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, and law firms in Boston and Washington.

In 2015, Powers became director of the M.S. in Cybersecurity Policy and Governance program at the Woods College of Advancing Studies; the program will become the Master of Legal Studies in Cybersecurity, Risk, and Governance program at BC Law School with the first cohort of students entering next fall. Along with his teaching at Boston College, Powers is a Cybersecurity Research Affiliate at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a lecturer for Sloan’s Executive Education Program.

The Veterans Day event is sponsored by the Boston College Alumni Association, Boston College Veterans Alumni Network, Army ROTC at Boston College, the Office of the Executive Vice President, and the Office of Campus Ministry.

The ceremony is significant for the approximately 150 student veterans currently enrolled at BC—including 35 undergraduates—and more than 80 employees who served in the armed forces, said Director of Military and Veteran Support Mike Lorenz.

Additional veterans-focused events include the BC Veteran Tailgate and the Military Appreciation Game on Saturday. On Monday, November 11, Lorenz’s office and the Political Science Department will co-sponsor a program featuring Christopher Izant ’10, author of Final Engagement: A Marine’s Last Mission and the Surrender of Afghanistan, who will discuss his experiences in Afghanistan.